Never mind the 99% - the real issue is makers, takers, fakers

There is plenty of blame to go around about who is responsible for the high cost of health care. DeeJay Austin says there is a better way to look at it.

The question

“is not whether doctors are overpaid in comparison to bookkeepers but to compare what was legitimately expected as a result from a ‘plan’ and what is *now* the result. How many people would happily agree to a 50% cut in compensation from that objective that justified their entering their hard-won, life-long career path. And, yes, we are all facing that in some form and to various degrees.

“I really wish we could stop prosecuting the 1% vs 99% battle and recognize the three factions here that I call makers, takers and fakers.

“Makers are those who, with talent, hard work and whatever opportunities they encounter, produce value for themselves and society.

“Takers are those who, for whatever reason are net receivers of value. (Note: Some have no choice and cannot produce value; others choose not to produce value, and we don’t need to delineate who fits into which group.)

“The real point I want to make is that the fakers are the real culprit. Those are the ones who build and work “the system” in which the makers and takers are polarized while they (the fakers) are getting rich off the process and the antagonism.

“This is exactly like the bookie who gets rich no matter who wins or loses the endless stream of contests of one side against the other.”

“Does anyone think the politicians, pundits, activists and operatives that are fulminating the 1% v 99% battle (also known as the “middle class”, the “oppressed,” “disfranchised,” and “union workers”) are poor? They work very hard to make it seem that they are just big-hearted, but they have figured out the means and context in which to ENRICH themselves from it. They aren’t delivering value so that people and businesses want to give them money. They only create a contrivance and a control mechanism by which people and businesses are forces to give them money.”